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Title: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0-671-02064-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (116 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The characters were great; the plot lazy
Comment: While I found COMANCHE MOON very entertaining and a worthwhile read, I have to echo the disappointment expressed by some of the other readers here. I love McMurtry's characterizations and dialogue in all his period novels, but in this book, these vivid characters (Gus, Call, Famous Shoes and especially Inish Scull) were basically wandering around, free of convincing motivation, sent on wild goose chases or foolish errands. They mostly even lacked emotional investment in their missions. The stakes were low. The novel could have been vastly improved if it had ended a little more climactically with the rescue of Scull from Ahumado's camp by Gus & Call; in the book, the rescue has a whiff of anticlimax, as does the actual ending some 200 pages later. We see how good McMurtry can be; LONESOME DOVE is my favorite single book of the last 15 years. In that book, though, there was a quest, a job to do, and a direction for the plot. COMANCHE MOON had the feel of a writer having created these wonderful characters and writing a stream-of-conscious story; no idea where the characters were going, and little interest in how they got there.
Rating: 5
Summary: COMPLETES THE LONESOME DOVE SAGA
Comment: Comanche Moon is the seemingly lost fourth volume of the Lonesome Dove series. I actually encountered it on a used book sale rack at my local library. I picked it up and was stunned to discover that it was an additional installment to the series by Larry McMurtry. I had bought and read the other three and enthusiastically read this one.
Comanche Moon is actually the second book in the series and takes up where Dead Man's Walk leaves off.
Comanche Moon is essential in that it provides much-needed connective tissue between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove. It brings Gus and Call back home after their failure in taking Santa Fe. It also paints much clearer portraits of important characters like Maggie, Newt's mother, and Clara Harris, the love of Augustus McCrae's life.
Especially important are the answers to questions that Comanche Moon provides about Blue Duck. But I'll leave you to the book to discover those for yourself.
No less than Lonesome Dove, Dead Man's Walk and Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon is an incredible story in true Larry McMurtry style and, as already noted, is essential to the complete Lonesome Dove saga.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a must read!
Comment: This book needs to be made into a T.V. mini-series like the rest of the books. If you like Capt. Call and Gus this book is a must read. This book fills in the blanks. Get it. You will like it.
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Title: Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671001167 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671537466 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 067168390X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671753800 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Boone's Lick : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671040588 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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